SIS Backs Data Reduction Package

In the US, intelligence provider SIS International has announced a partnership with Acuity Software, to use its mining and analysis software to help information workers 'cut clutter' in their day.

The product is meant for office workers who spend a large portion of their day conducting research over the Internet, with news services or internal documentation, and who then spend more time analyzing, prioritising and disseminating it.

Acuity uses Natural Language Processing and computational linguistic techniques to find and catalogue information according to end-users' stated requirements, from source material such as results from Google, Yahoo, Factiva and Dialog. Acuity CEO J. Brooke Aker says the technology helps 'corporate users who wish to reduce their search, analysis and reporting time with a single integrated browser based product.'

Ruth Stanet, President of SIS, says the partnership is intended to 'cut through clutter', with 'the web adding 7 million new pages per day and managers dealing with 178 emails per day... The amount of written information is overwhelming.' The software adds the ability to analyse and summarize information, with clipping of text, images and graphics, mining for business events, analytical charts and graphs of business events.

The companies are online at www.sisinternational.com and www.acuitysoftware.com .

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